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Helping yourself and others through the power of pen by Sarah Firth

September 3, 2019 No Comments

I met Sarah Firth when I moved to Australia the second time in 2013. Sarah was for me THE graphic recorder, and I admired and still admire the great art she creates. Sarah is an award-winning comic artist, graphic recorder, writer and animator based in Melbourne.

Surprise yourself and make an impact with Alan Kurrle

August 20, 2019 No Comments

Alan Kurrle Project Manager, Information Systems The night before his meeting, Alan decided to turn three pages of heavy text

Championing visualisation in the workplace with Nuzakat Ali

July 8, 2019 No Comments

Nuzakat Ali Problem solver. Product maker. Team builder. Visual Facilitator Nuzakat admits, she’s never been a fan of plain text.

Yuliya and Marcel about our new 60 day coaching program

June 16, 2019 No Comments

In the Visual Friends Radio Insights, I would like to share with you some experiences I have in my daily life working as an agile coach and visual facilitator. My name is Marcel van Hove and I hope you enjoy this episode called “The whiteboard dance”.

How bikablo® revitalised my career with Marc Hundleby

May 31, 2019 No Comments

Four months before Marc taught his first Bikablo® class, he wasn’t aware Bikablo® existed. Back then he was an experienced Project/Program Manager who was seeking a new career direction without much clarity. Bikablo® changed all that.

Visualisation Transformation with Christiane Anderson

May 10, 2019 No Comments

“Visualisation helps break down communication barriers, removes ego and takes away a lot of tension and bias. It makes people really happy. Drawing and playing with colour reminds us how to be free, creative and unburdened, it helps us reconnect to ourselves and be present in the moment.”

Biunca Hooper about Visual Ways of Working inside Organisations

April 16, 2019 No Comments

We could have almost replaced Biunca’s story with her brilliant poster. She created it in response to our interview request to talk about the role of visualisation in her work. “I wanted to get a bit of perspective down on paper about why I thought visualisation was important. Because at the end of the day, what better way to talk about the visualisation than to visualise it.”

Melaine D’Cruze about Visualising Learning for Kids

March 18, 2019 No Comments

Melaine D’Cruze has been a visual thinker all her life. Through her school years and her career, she always took visual notes and doodled to focus and to remember ideas. She didn’t know that there was actually a professional field for visual thinking until one day when she discovered the TED Talk from Sunni Brown, Doodlers, unite!

Visualisation as a Agile Coaching Tool with Zhi Lee

March 4, 2019 No Comments

Using visualisation makes the connection so much richer as opposed to talking to someone or reading a message off a list. You can have a better-quality conversation.

Let’s letter together with Heather Martinez in Melbourne

February 7, 2019 No Comments

We talk about her whole life from the beginning where she grew up, where she chose to live and how she got into graphic facilitation. We learn how it feels being graphically recorded for the first time herself and what we as graphic recorders might need to consider when recording someone talk.

Danny Low about Visualisations of Legal Contracts, Agile Coaching & Kung-Fu

November 27, 2018 No Comments

Let me introduce to you Danny Low. Danny is not only a bikablo® trainer and partner at the Visual Friends. He is also a very good friend of mine and in many ways, we are very similar. We talk a bit about that but we forgot to talk about one great story. So in the early days when I met Danny, he told me that he will take time off and travel with his family around the world.

Be Brave and Iterate!

November 13, 2018 No Comments

Do you remember the time when Apple was founded or maybe have seen the movie ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’? Until I met Dean, I never had met a person who worked at Apple at that time when the first Macintosh and with that the first graphical user Interface (GUI) was released to the world.

Sunni Brown – Believe in Yourself and Design Your Life (Part 2 of 2)

September 27, 2018 No Comments

In the second episode, We find out more about her work as an author and why riding a dragon and writing a book is a similar challenge. We talk about the serendipity that she got invited to TED2011 and how she prepared 4 months for the 6 minutes that has inspired more than 1.4 million people.

Sunni Brown – Believe in Yourself and Design Your Life (Part 1 of 2)

September 23, 2018 No Comments

In this new episode, you will learn a lot about Sunnis Brown’s life and her early years as an entrepreneur from strangling to make a living to be one of the top speaker and best-selling author in the field.

Jill Greenbaum about how to coach teenagers to find the right college

September 9, 2018 No Comments

We talk about her coaching practice and her work as a facilitator with POINTS OF YOU® from Israel who provides inspiring life coaching cards that you can use for live coaching games. Last but not least we look at her upcoming bikablo® trainings in the US that she hosts, her work on the IFVP board and learn that she even has been to Tasmania recently!

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